2006-Oct-10
A Busy But Great Weekend
Posted in Just Thoughts
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Well we had a busy but interesting/fun weekend. Last Friday we did our shopping. Boy were the stores busy!! Everyone in a rush to get there Thanksgiving goodies before the last shopping day on Sunday. After we got home the littles had there supper and went to bed. Laura got to stay up and help us out side
 . After the little jobs were done, I helped dh move our new stove into the house. We had to go bit by bit because it was so heavy for me. It weights 180 pounds! I ended up pulling my back and tummy muscles.  But at least I held out long enough to help dh get it into the kitchen. After that we put a towel under it and could slide it to ware we wanted it.Shortly after that we found out that Amanda was in labor! So her kiddies came here for a few hours until her mom could pick them up. We had a fun time reading stories and watching a history of tractor dvd of dh. We staid up late talking about the renovations we are planing to do.
Saturday dh started working on putting in our chimney. He put a whole through the livingroom wall and installed the insert. Problem number one was the peace of steel chimney to go through the wall was 12" long. That was about an 1" to short lol. So called all the local hard ware stores and know one carried that brand. So we had to drive all the way back to Home Depot to get an 18" peace. Four hours latter we were home and dh got that peace installed. Then started putting up the piping. He got 2 peace done before it was to dark to work and he was having trouble with the heights. He's not good with heights or latter's especially caring heavy things up latter's. Putting the two together and well.....
 So he called a friend to see if he could come and give a hand the next day. Sunday, morning we took the kids out to the petting farm/tractor museum for a while. Then came home and had lunch. Then our friend came over to help dh with the chimney. They got one peace put up no problems, but after that there were about 15+ feet up and neither felt up to going any higher (you need to get up almost 30 feet to the peek of our roof). I don't blame them!! That steel chimney is that stainless double insulated and HEAVEY!! I can hardly lift a 3 foot section let a lone drag it up a latter!
That night I started pulling everything out of the laundry/craft room. Moved the tables around in there sorted out a bunch of junk. Then dh put up two huge shelves for me. So most of my boxes of yarn and such are up out of the way now. I need more shelves though! LOL Anyway I put things back as best I could.
While I was doing this dh was working on fixing our well. We still had yucky smelling water! It smelled pondy. This was after he had bleached the well twice and had been flushing it out for days (it's spring fed so replaces quickly). Well he took a light and had a real good look at it. Found a crack in the old casing were soil had washed into the well! It had piled up near the intake. We had been having rain almost everyday for 3 to 4 weeks and the last day before our water trouble started was a VERY heavy rain storm. The pressure of the heavy wet soil must have been to much for the old casing. So any way he made a scoop and started digging out the top soil that was in the well. It's only about 8 to 10 feet deep. After that was done he bleach treated one more time and we flushed the well good. Guess what?! That was the problem with in hours the water had cleared and smelled good! It must have been the organic material in the soil turning the taste/smell.
Monday was our Thanksgiving up here! Since I FINALY had water back I was able to get cleaning the kitchen. Dh helped and it went quickly. We moved all my sewing boxes out of the kitchen and into the craft room. That was why I was cleaning it the night before to make room for this stuff. lol. Moved some things around in the kitchen and it's more open looking now we like it! Then started on my cooking for the day. Got the turkey in the oven about 9am. Cut a cabbage from the garden and made cold slaw. Then started getting the veggies and casserole ingredients ready. Our friends got here at about 1:30 and brought a yummy apple pie and pumpkin cream cheese bars with them!
I had to take a break from cooking to tend the baby who decided to play strange lol and get her settled down for a nap. And I'm very glad my good friends are country people and cat lovers. LOL We JUST sat down for supper when Laura ran in the kitchen (the kids were eating at a little table in the living room beside us) and said there was a mouse in the living room!?!? I didn't belive her but though well I'd better check. LOL good thing I did, the cat had caught a mouse and was proudly sitting under the pc desk with her trophy. So I had to get rid of that lol then back to dinner. Our cat was so happy with her self she had a crowed of people telling her what a good kitty she was ROTFLOL!
After dinner my dear friends did the clean up for me so I got to relax the rest of the night!
 We had a wonderful day visiting and I'm already looking forward to next Thanksgiving!Tuesday is back to our normal work days. Dh went and asked a neighbor if he could come and help with the chimney. He had helped the last owner put the siding on the house. He said he would come tomorrow. Well I just found out it's suppose to rain tomorrow!! I'm hoping it will hold off for them to try and finish it. Dh also called 3 other places one was recommended by a friend but he's booked solid for the next 2 weeks. We really can't wait 3 weeks to get our stove going, the temps are going to drop this week. And the weather report is calling for rain mixed with flurries later this week!! One other place we are waiting to here back from and we were able to book the 3rd for next Wednesday morning. But they will probably be expensive and we are hoping we can find someone to do it sooner. We'll just have to wait and see!
I was just looking at the weather and see Northen Ontario and Manitoba and NWT are under snow storm warnings!! Yikes winter will be here before we know it! |
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